Frozen Quotes

• A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Reading, Ice

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• I call architecture frozen music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Badass, Bad Ass

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.282

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• Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Art, Soul

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• That's what Zombieland is: frozen, calm, quiet.

  Lauren Oliver

  Zombieland, Calm, Quiet

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• It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Creative, Fleeting, Moments

  Andrew Wyeth, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1980). “Andrew Wyeth”

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• A poem is a frozen moment
  melted by each reader for themselves
  to flow into the here and now.

  Hilde Domin

  Flow, Moments, Here And Now

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• Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

  James F. Cooper

  Motivational, Friendship, Spring

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• A stone is frozen music

  Pythagoras

  Stones

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• Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Art, Water, Skating

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 724-725), 1922.

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• It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all.

  Idina Menzel

  Distance, Controlled, Seems

  Song: Let It Go

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• It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

  Charles Dickens

  Couple, Hands, People

  Charles Dickens (1995). “The Letters of Charles Dickens”

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• Sometimes I come here just to be a lost mariner
  but I am never lost:
  there are the snowflakes frozen to the porthole of a jewelry store,
  here is the treasure chest open to a single pearl
  laid on a velvet slab,
  there is the plashing of faces in the aisles
  and the row of lockers stuffed with the coats and hats of the drowned
  and it is night, and the moon rows over
  the gentle waters of the parking lot.

  Nancy Eimers

  Moon, Night, Water

  Nancy Eimers (2006). “A Grammar to Waking: Poems”, Carnegie-Mellon University Press

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• I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Writing, Creativity, Thinking

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• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Sorry, Bird

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6615, Delphi Classics

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• Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

  Robert Benchley

  Thinking, Years, Littles

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.19, Glendower Media

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• I'm the luckiest man alive, this is the best day of my life.

  George Strait

  Inspirational, Groundhog Day, Men

  Song: The Best Day Of My Life

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• In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

  Edward de Bono

  Writing, Ignorance, History

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Food, Humor

  "Mitch All Together". Live album by Mitch Hedberg, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2003.

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• In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

  Douglas Sirk

  Beauty, Art, Ideas

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• The cold never bothered me anyway.

  Idina Menzel

  Olaf, Cold, Bothered

  Song: Let It Go

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• The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Ocean, Boston

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• Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Assets, Resources

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.359, New Directions Publishing

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• Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

  Billy Joel

  Halloween, World, Radio

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• The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

  William Gibson

  Boundaries, Boxes, Human Experience

  William Gibson (1987). “Count Zero”, p.22, Penguin

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